[hllug] Re: Off topic (evil empire)
- From: Don Crowder <donguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:19:52 -0600
On 02/09/2012 04:02 PM, paul wrote:
I hit Send too soon.
After changing the power supply, re-seat the various cards and all the
connections to everything and the memory sticks. You did blow out the
dust.
Yeah, pretty much done all that.
Might try another power supply. Tho I've only had one fail, ever.
You've had better luck than me. I just replaced the power supply in the
machine I'm using to write this email yesterday. I keep a box full of
them on hand. I've solved some truly weird problems by replacing power
supplies.
Check the cooling fans/heat sinks.
Done.
hal.dll can get trashed. Running set-up fixed it for me. I lost
nothing... but time and replacing the hard drive.... 'cause after
something like this, I assume the drives are almost trash.
I don't have a 64 bit Windows CD and I don't know which version of
Windows the machine is using.
It does have a floppy drive so I could try your other suggestion;
"booting with a floppy and running fdisk/mbr" but I'm leaning towards
trying fsck from a live Linux CD first.
Thanks for your input.
Don Crowder said the following on 2/9/2012 3:19 PM:
Richard Salts asked me take a look at his dysfunctional Windows
machine. I found that, when it was turned on (when the button was
pushed) it acted like it was going to boot up (lights blinked, drives
whirred) but it shut down after a few seconds (just switched off). I
tried another power supply and that corrected the initial problem but
it still won't boot up.
The machine is an Athlon 64, 3000+, 1.8 GHz, single core (I think).
It's got two hard drives in it. During the boot process, at one
point, I get:
Raid
none define
No Raid
and, immediately thereafter, I get:
---
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
---
There's no COA on it so I don't know what OS it's using and, even if
I did, the newest Windows CDs I have are 32 bit XP Home and Pro.
In my admittedly limited experience, when I've seen a similar error
message, the problem wasn't actually a missing file. I'm wondering
if I can boot from a Linux live CD (or a System Rescue CD) and run
fsck but the only live CDs I have on hand are 32 bit.
So, I'm sort of stumped at this point. Suggestions? Anyone?
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